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Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monumen

Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites (#IDMS), and this year’s theme, “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures,” speaks directly to the work that ACOR and @usaid_schep have undertaken at Jordanian heritage sites and with local communities since 2014. No monument or site is defined by one story or narrative: each holds a broad array of meanings and values for the communities that interact with it over time. SCHEP and ACOR believe that each of these communities should have a say in how sites are preserved, interpreted, and presented and how heritage on the whole is understood and interacted with. For these reasons, we have worked from the beginning to ensure the inclusion of voices from underrepresented groups and communities in conversations around the management of SCHEP's nine affiliated sites, as well as Jordan’s wider cultural heritage. In addition to perusing our #IDMS2021 photo album, we encourage you to learn more about these efforts across Jordan in the recent publication _The Story of SCHEP_ (link in bio!)

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Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monumen

Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites (#IDMS), and this year’s theme, “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures,” speaks directly to the work that ACOR and @USAID_SCHEP have undertaken at Jordanian heritage sites and with local communities since 2014. No monument or site is defined by one story or narrative: each holds a broad array of meanings and values for the communities that interact with it over time. SCHEP and ACOR believe that each of these communities should have a say in how sites are preserved, interpreted, and presented and how heritage on the whole is understood and interacted with. For these reasons, we have worked from the beginning to ensure the inclusion of voices from underrepresented groups and communities in conversations around the management of SCHEP's nine affiliated sites, as well as Jordan’s wider cultural heritage. In addition to perusing our #IDMS2021 photo album, we encourage you to learn more about these efforts across Jordan in the recent publication _The Story of SCHEP_ (link in bio!)

2. Petra, Temple of the Winged Lions: Wajd Nawafleh mortaring walls of the temple. February 2018. USAID SCHEP. You can read more about the Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management Project on pages 68–75 of _The Story of SCHEP (2014–2018): publications.acorjordan.org/books

3. Aktham ALoyadi presents at the Jordan Archaeological Heritage Strategy workshop on the Research and Studies pillar organized by USAID SCHEP. September 2019. USAID SCHEP.

Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monumen

Today is the #ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites (#IDMS), and this year’s theme, “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures,” speaks directly to the work that ACOR and @USAID_SCHEP have undertaken at Jordanian heritage sites and with local communities since 2014. No monument or site is defined by one story or narrative: each holds a broad array of meanings and values for the communities that interact with it over time. SCHEP and ACOR believe that each of these communities should have a say in how sites are preserved, interpreted, and presented and how heritage on the whole is understood and interacted with. For these reasons, we have worked from the beginning to ensure the inclusion of voices from underrepresented groups and communities in conversations around the management of SCHEP's nine affiliated sites, as well as Jordan’s wider cultural heritage. In addition to perusing our #IDMS2021 photo album, we encourage you to learn more about these efforts across Jordan in the recent publication _The Story of SCHEP_ (link in bio!)

1.Ghawr as Safi: school group visit to the medieval sugar factory as part of Madrasati program. April 2016. You can find out more about SCHEP’s awareness activities with youth on pages 102–109 of The Story of SCHEP.

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أسرة المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث (أكور) تهنئكم بمناسبه حلول شهر رمضان المبارك

.كل عام وأنتم بخير

صورة لجامع الشيخ " علي الشاذلي " في مدينة المَخاء - اليمن عام 1995, من مجموعة صور جين تايلور - أرشيف أكور الإلكتروني للصور والوثائق

Ramadan Kareem from all of us at ACOR. We wish you and your loved ones a blessed month.

Image: Ali ash-Shadhili Mosque. Mocha, Yemen. 1995. (Jane Taylor Collection, ACOR Digital Archive.)

As you may have heard, earlier this spring, we wel

As you may have heard, earlier this spring, we welcomed a new associate director to ACOR: Dr. Helen Malko!

Helen Malko joined ACOR in March 2021 as associate director for fellowships and programming. Dr. Malko holds a PhD in anthropology and archaeology from Stony Brook University and a master’s degree from Baghdad University. She has conducted fieldwork in Turkey and Iraq and is a member of the Columbia University Project Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.

You can find out more about her research and experience at acorjordan.org/staff-directory

Will we see you later this month for Professor May

Will we see you later this month for Professor Maysoon Al-Nahar's online lecture on “A Review of Selected Sites in Jordan: Paleolithic–Neolithic Periods”?

Image: Jordan. Wadi Rum, Ayn Abu Nekheileh, Early Neolithic Arrowheads and Blade Fragments. (James A. Sauer Collection, 1975–1981. ACOR Digital Archive.)

هل سنراكم في محاضرة هذا الشهر الإفتراضية التي ستلقيها الأستاذة ميسون النهار تحت عنوان (عرض لمواقع مختارة من الأردن: العصر الحجري القديم - العصر الحجري الحديث)؟

صورة لرؤوس أسهم وشظايا النصال تعود للعصر الحجري الحديث موجودة في الأردن - وادي رم - عين وادي نخيلة. 1975-1981 (من مجموعة جيمس ساور - أرشيف أكور الإلكتروني للصور والوثائق .)

“How did the camel reliefs age? What might they

“How did the camel reliefs age? What might they have meant to passersby in different periods, be they Nabataeans, Romans, Christians, or Muslims?”

“To explore this question, it may be helpful to consider some different stages of memory…. Studies on cultural memory emphasize the importance of objects and monuments with long histories that surround us and that we interact with on a daily basis.... [I]nteraction with these ‘things’ situate us in different identities.”

Wishing to read more? Check out this article by ACOR board member Björn Anderson in the special Petra issue of the _Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology_ (vol. 14, no. 4) out earlier this year: “The Camel Reliefs in Petra’s Siq: Reflections on the Life and Afterlife of an Early Nabataean Monument” (Anderson 2021) (link to the issue is in our bio!).

Images from the Jane Taylor Collection, ACOR Digital Archive, 1997–2001.

When was the last time you visited #Petra? Image

When was the last time you visited #Petra?

Image: Obelisk Tomb and Bab as Siq Triclinium. Petra, Jordan. 1999. (Jane Taylor Collection, ACOR Digital Archive.)

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